Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:18:14 -0600
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
> The (b) kind of inconsistency is unavoidable, but I'd rather avoid
> it for the "mindless" kind of lock movement that affects a lot of
> drivers and filesystems, yet is basically very simple ("mindless" !=
> "easy").
Except it will cost us time and stability. Where do you draw the line?
Or even better: when will 2.4 be really, really, *really* released?
I have to agree with Richard here. If we do this, it'll set back 2.4 by
at least month (and I may be conservative here). There will *always* be
more places where we can do more/better fine-grained locking. Where
indeed do we draw the line, and do we really want to be doing this while
we're at 2.4.0-test*?!?
If we were still accepting stuff like this, we shouldn't have moved the
verison number to 2.3.99 or 2.4.0testn.
- Ted
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